Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
American philosopher and novelist; author of The Mind-Body Problem (1983), Incompleteness (2005), on Gödel, and Plato at the Googleplex (2014); MacArthur Fellow in 1996.
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
I’m really interested in novels that are deeply Platonic, and Death in Venice is deeply Platonic.
on fivebooks.com · 17 Mar 2018 · Report
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Then a dean said, ‘Oh, all of our students are always clamouring to read Infinite Jest.
on fivebooks.com · 17 Mar 2018 · Report
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Both the first two books that I’ve chosen—Middlemarch and Moby Dick, by Herman Melville—grew out of their authors’ preoccupations with Spinoza.
on fivebooks.com · 17 Mar 2018 · Report
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
This is really idiosyncratic: The Black Prince (1973) by Iris Murdoch.
on fivebooks.com · 17 Mar 2018 · Report
Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
What Enlightenment Now demonstrates is how far it has brought us, often kicking and screaming, into our greater collective well-being—and therefore how much we stand to lose in taking reason’s progress for granted.
on fivebooks.com · 25 Oct 2017 · Report
Republic by Plato
His Republic is the most famous of his dialogues, and it’s the first work I recommend to understand the origins of the project of applying reason—our ability to perceive logical connections, explore the implications of our beliefs—to the problems of knowing how best to live.
on fivebooks.com · 25 Oct 2017 · Report
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